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How to use spurns in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word spurns? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury.
While commonplace wisdom spurns escapism, practical experience sometimes calls for it.
He spurns the notion that modernization as such is the ticket to emancipation and happiness.
She spurns his advances on several occasions, but he remains persistent, warning Eliza that she should not make an enemy of him.
Williams has three chances to win the frame but spurns them all and Doherty looks to be cleaning up but misses a straightforward brown.
If America spurns global agreements on climate change, the whole planet is more vulnerable.
Dakar has a culture that spurns from the pivotal role it played in the colonial history of West Africa.
Later, he spurns Oxford to study at Heidelberg, spends a lonesome stretch in London, and tries painting in Paris.
She only speaks with her husband and children and spurns all other contact.
Secondly, co-management spurns the myth that there is one best way to manage natural resources.
Verse 5 of the 15th chapter of Proverbs is an example of a simple antithetic saying: He who spurns his father's discipline is a fool, he who accepts correction is discreet.
He spurns the palace dancers, regarding them as tormentors!
The next day she hectored Biljana Plavsic, the head of Bosnia's Serb Republic, which spurns the tribunal as anti-Serb. If her threats are ignored, might NATO's troops make arrests?
Nondescriptivist cognitivism spurns psychological non-cognitivism, but embraces semantic nonfactualism, at least insofar as it rejects the claim that moral sentences describe the world or predicate genuine properties.
He spurns the charms of painting in the open air.
Examples from Classical Literature
She spurns the doctrine that it is woman's position to abnegate and to immolate herself.
With his horse and his rifle, he is independent of the world, and spurns at all its restraints.
He spurns faith and relies too much on his own observation and reasoning.
But Oedipus spurns the hypocrite, and invokes a dire curse on both his unnatural sons.
He rebukes and spurns them, no word of love comes from his lips.
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